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Job 3

1Job curseth the day of his birth, 11and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20he complaineth of life because of his anguish.


1 AFTER this aopened Job his mouth, and bcursed his day.

2 And Job 1spake, and said,

3 cLet the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4 Let that day be ddarkness; let not eGod regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the fshadow of death 2stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; 3let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; 4let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 4: Or, let it not rejoice among the days.

7 Lo, let that night be gsolitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it hthat curse the day, who are ready to raise up 5their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it ilook for light, but have none; neither let it see 6the dawning of the day:

10 Because it jshut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid ksorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why ldied I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why mdid the knees *prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should nI have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 oWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who pfilled their houses with silver:

16 Or qas an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the rwicked cease from troubling; and there the 7weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the soppressor.

19 The tsmall and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is ulight given to him that is in misery, and life unto the vbitter in soul;

21 wWhich 8long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

    23 Why is light given to a man xwhose way is hid, and ywhom God hath zhedged in?

    24 For amy sighing cometh 9before I eat, and bmy roarings are poured out like the waters.

    25 For 10the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

    • 10: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me.

    26 cI was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.